As I didn’t need to push the entire app configuration, I didn’t write a push-all.sh script. That could get messy with the permissions and I didn’t want to do a chmod 777. But of course you can do that if you like.

These simple scripts got me some really nice results during pentests. Activate apps that I only had in the free version. Reset the app’s PIN lock count. Disable ads showing in the application.

Extracting Windows hashes for password cracking is pretty basic, right? If you try to copy the SAM and SYSTEM file from C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\ on a running Windows 2003 server you get an error message, saying that it’s already in use. So before you start using shadowcopies or ntbackup or any other tools, consider just copying C:\WINDOWS\repair\SAM and SYSTEM. Basically the same files, altough it seems that the repair folder is not always up to date.